Latitude 53's co-founder, Edmonton-based painter Sylvain Voyer, has a new show this week at Douglas Udell Gallery on 124 St. In it, he recognizes the region where he makes his work:
Voyer has given us a visual diary of the Prairies, its hills, coulees and rivers. With this exhibition, he offers us Edmonton’s river valley; Mill Creek, where he grew up, and one of his first painting sites as a boy; the Highlands, where he and his wife live today; the Athabaska area, where Voyer maintains a studio/house in Tawatinaw Valley; and Latitude 50, reflecting Voyer’s five-year residence in Claresholm, where he explored the southern “cowboy country” of the Porcupine Hills, Nanton and Chief Mountain.
The exhibition title also salutes Latitude 53 Gallery, the artist-run centre Voyer co-founded with Harry Savage in 1972.
We don't show that many landscape paintings in our programing, but Voyer is a major part of our history, and that of art in Edmonton. Read Janice Ryan's preview in the Edmonton Journal